Word: pistarini
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...United Nations, and (as a price) were willing to restore to the Argentine people some of their democratic liberties. But spotted through their administration were other powerful politicians who felt that to yield would be fatal. Most notorious were Filomeno Velazco, chief of police, and General Juan Pistarini, Minister of Public Works. Tenaciously, they and their fellows clung to power, preventing the Government's concessions from having much effect. Said Pistarini (according to Vanguardia): "We shall relinquish the Government when frogs grow hair...
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